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Rail Projects Worth Rs 30,000 crore To Be Shifted From Bihar To West Bengal: Reports
With Lalu Yadav decimated and nobody from Bihar Congress capable enough to take up the issue, railway projects worth Rs 30,000 crore are likely to be shifted from Bihar to West Bengal, the home state of the new railway minister, Mamata Banerjee. This includes the setting up two new locomotive manufacturing units--one in Chapra and the other in Madhepura.
According to media reports from Delhi this follows an internal review by the Indian Railways after Mamata Banerjee took charge as the new minister. The project could now come up in partnership with the private sector. It was the outgoing railway minister Lalu Prasad, who had proposed that a diesel locomotive factory be set up in Marhaura near Chapra and an electric one in Madhepura. It was never a smooth ride for Lalu as he had to face several contentious internal debates and differences with other ministries. A top railway official has been quoted in media as saying that "the cabinet has the power to decide where these projects should be situated. A decision on shifting the location of these factories would be a political decision and they can take a call on relocating the two projects, if required." Source: Bihar Times Rail Projects Worth Rs 30,000 crore To Be Shifted From Bihar To West Bengal: Reports Click On "Full Story" For More... By ugesh sarkar, Section News Posted on Tue Jun 23, 2009 at 02:35:28 AM EST
Though senior railway officials are of the view that there was no logistical or technical reason for the factories to be situated in Bihar and that the decision was purely political the truth is that political factors often dominate the logistic and technical reasons. For example the coach factory came up in Kapurthala in late-1980s to take the wind out of the Khalistan movement. Similarly, the coach factory at Sonia Gandhi's parliamentary constituency, Rai Bareli, has nothing to do with the logistic or technical factors. The foundation stone was laid only early this year with both Sonia and Lalu gracing the occasion.
The tragedy with Bihar is that the state's bargaining position has been considerably eroded. There is no one from the Congress in Bihar to stand up and resist the move. The RJD and LJP have got completely marginalized. The NDA, which has 32 MPs from Bihar, is least interested in any move which even remotely gives credit to Lalu Yadav. Its whole election campaign revolved around the argument that Lalu and Ram Vilas did absolutely nothing for the state. Once these projects go out of Bihar they will be able to say that their allegations have been vindicated.
In contrast Mamata Banerjee would like to make a political capital out of these projects as her party, in alliance with the Congress, is likely to take on the Left Front in 2011 assembly election.
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